Our mission is to serve as the voice for families in the Anchorage School District and to promote educational success for minority students.

Contact us

Damito Owen - President
damito.owen@yahoo.com 

As the mother of one son, Ms. Owen has a passion for spiritual growth; the advancement and strengthening of families; and the safety, education and empowerment of women and children.  She earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside and her MS in Business Organizational Management from the University of LaVerne.  Presently, she is working toward a MS in Community Mental Health Counseling in order to become an LPC.  She has worked as an entrepreneur and in management in both the public and private sectors.  She is currently working at Anchorage Literacy Project and serves on the Board of Directors for the Alaska State Federation of Business and Professional Women and is committed to representing parents and students as a positive voice to the Anchorage School Board.

Fa’aana Tosi
1st Vice President

Valerie Fletcher-Mitchell
2nd Vice President

Valerie Fletcher-Mitchell was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She lives in Anchorage, AK with her husband and two children. Valerie retired from the USAF and entered the civilian workforce. She has worked in the public non-profit, private non-profit and private sectors. Valerie has a Masters degree in Business Organizational Management. She currently works for the Alaska Department of Transportation, Civil Rights Office as an Equal Opportunity Officer/Title VI Specialist.

Rhonda Gardner
Assistant Superintendent of Instruction

Dawnyale Bolds

Marie Husa

Dr. Ellsworth James

Dr. Ellsworth James has 15 years of experience in the field of Industrial Psychology and Social Research. In 1992 as a consultant for Sigma Consulting Group, Dr. James provided coaching, program development and conflict resolution for expatriate executive personnel based in Europe. In 1995 he became the senior partner at Psychological Consultants International GbR, in Berlin Germany. While there he developed cross cultural communications seminars and cultural diversity training programs for multi-national corporations in Europe and Asia. Returning to the United States in 1998, he participated in several international social research and community development projects and in 2006 became a senior partner in the consulting group James, Velox and James. Dr. Ellsworth James has been married for 17 years, has 3 children, and continues his work in the field of cultural genetics and environmental trauma. His lectures topics include: Cultural Genetics, Traditional Grief, Intergenerational Trauma, and Diversity Management Strategies.

Karen Jenkins

Mrs. Jenkins has been an Anchorage resident since 1995.  She has nine children, all attending schools in the Anchorage District.  She recently received her BA degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage and she is currently enrolled in UAA's graduate degree program.  Mrs. Jenkins and her husband of 18 years believe that Alaska's schools are some of the best in the country and pledge to continue to work toward keeping them that way.

Lamin Jobarteh

Atisa Logo (Aumoeualogo)

As the mother of eight (her oldest is 24), Ms. Logo serves as guide, counselor, teacher, cook, coach, friend, homemaker, chauffeur, disciplinarian, and companion to those eight both in times of joy and sorrow.  Atisa is an early morning Seminary teacher for the juniors in the Northern Lights Ward of the LDS church.  She is also Ward chorister in their Sunday sacrament meetings and a Ward Relief Society Visiting teacher coordinator.  She is a board member and secretary for the Polynesian Association of Alaska (PAOA) and represents PAOA wherever she is asked to go.  She is also active in the T-Bird Forum for East High School parents and a member of Bridge Builders.  In addition to being an on-and-off student @ UAA, Atisa describes herself as a “single mother, sister, aunt, daughter, cousin, friend, neighbor, child of God.”

Dan Loring

Toc Soneoulay